![]() ![]() Watson was the leading astronomical clockmaker at the end of 17th century but he did make other clocks, including fine tables clock (see fig 4). as a brother on 29 Sept 1690 and had set up his business in Long Acre, where he is recorded paying water rates for 1692. No children are recorded for the couple so that Watson may have worked elsewhere before 1682 when a son Samuel was baptised at St Michaels Church, Coventry on 1 June 1682. He married Elizabeth Milburn at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry on 8 April 1672. Samuel junior would have been apprenticed, possibly in Coventry from 1664-1671. ![]() 1650/51, son of Samuel and Sibbell Watson. Samuel Watson was baptised at Kingsbury, War, sixteen miles north west of Coventry, on 15 Feb. ![]() With the help of Mr Philip Southall, we have been able to piece together more information about this extremely talented clockmaker and mathematician. Mr Lloyd knew very little about the clockmaker’s life and origins but he greatly admired his work and thought he was among the finest clockmakers to have worked in this country. The same writer wrote an article for the same journal in December 1948 about the two astronomical clocks Watson made for Sir Isaac Newton and are now in the possession of the Clockmakers’ Company. H Alan Lloyd described the Windsor, astronomical clock in an article he wrote for the Horological Journal in December 1942. ![]()
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